It's not "beyond repair". While it's a challenge, the boat appears complete. It's just a matter of labor, and that will be up to you.I was thinking it might be beyond repair, but figured someone here would convince me to save it! But it's worth more dead than alive, I guess, especially when Alan does the math with labor hours and repair costs. And I don't have a professional glass sprayer!
Thanks for making the decision an easier one. I guess everything has a lifespan, but with many donated organs and parts this Sunny will live on in others.
Oh, I know about flipping boats. I’ve sold six this summer and have someone coming by in 30 min to look at the seventh. I watch craigslist daily. I currently own 7 sailboats, plus kayaks, canoes, and rowboats. They are all labors of love. But there does come a point with some projects where the work far outweighs the value and though ‘beyond repair’ may have been a poor choice of words I think it’s time to strip the parts and let this hull go.
I would've picked them up by car, but with that cockpitI'd be starting at a "minus".
You've convinced me—those two parts will not "live on in others".
As the years go by, you might appreciate having established raised beds for your "cockpit" gardening projects earlier in life. (And thanks for that picture!)" Your hull has seen some serious abuse and deserves the long dirt nap in your local landfill."
If there were any doubts about saving this one they were gone when I saw this interior! I snapped a pic of bottom of cockpit because I thought it was pretty cool to see the tub to hull glueing. Much of this boat will be re-used or repurposed. The cockpit will go in the back forty and be a good flower pot- has drainage hole, too. The rest, as Alan suggests, gets the long dirt nap.